appropriately-inappropriate:

autumnsoliloquy:

soyeahso:

latessitrice:

girlwithalessonplan:

equuslupus:

spencersarcastic:

taylorswiftville:

by-grace-of-god:

Edit: Found more details here, professor is Sydney Engelberg of Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Bringing a baby to class is so completely disrespectful of the other students who are spending thousands of dollars to go to school only to have their learning disrupted by the most horrible sound on earth. This woman is incredibly selfish.

are you kidding me? this woman needs an education too, especially since she now has a child to take care of. yes, she brought her baby to class, but do you honestly think she would have done that if she had any other option? she’s not being selfish, she’s trying to simultaneously get an education while raising a baby. and just as a side note, “other students who are spending thousands of dollars” yeah she’s a student too meaning she’s also spending those thousands of dollars.

as a student, i would much rather my fellow classmates brought their kids with them than miss an important class. a child is nothing compared to all the other distractions in a classroom, i s2g. half of the time, i see more than 50% of my fellow classmates on their phones or laptops instead of paying attention to a prof (and i’m guilty of being one of them) so why in the hell is a baby more “disrupting” than someone playing candy crush?? and she was going to leave when the child started geetting restless but the prof CHOSE to help her out so she could stay. THAT IS AWESOME!!!

i went to school with my mom when she was in college all the time. i sat in lit classes, chinese history, etc. granted, i was like 8 or 9 at the time and played pokemon all the way through but having a kid should NOT prevent any parent from getting their education and i’m glad to see this prof take it in stride and recognize that student parents are under SO MUCH PRESSURE to get through school and handle their family at the same time. 

I remember seeing preschool age kids sitting in on my classes because the nontraditional students couldn’t get babysitters on days the preK or daycare was closed.  One time I shared my colored pencils with a little girl.  Profs never said a word about it when it happened–except one who cracked a joke about watching his language on that day.  I’d rather work with the single mom or dad who has to bring a kid to a study session than a fratboi dudebro who just wants to copy all my notes any damn day.   (True story.)

The original story even says the professor encourages the students to bring their children to class - probably because he’d rather they turned up than have to skip due to a lack of alternative childcare.

Blogger describes them self as a feminist but can’t garner an ounce of compassion for a mother who obviously had no other option. Nice.

This is why the only people I respect in med school are the mothers with children who are still keeping afloat in their studies despite all the responsibilities they have to juggle.

Which is also the reason why the only uni friends I have are pretty much nonexistent outside of uni

Not to mention, it’s not selfish when it’s point blank said “the mother tried to stand up and leave”.

Like, she’s got a kid. Child-care doesn’t grow on trees, and neither does the cash to pay for it.

Good for ScholarMama, and good on ProfessorGuy up there, and yay for Baby–cause frankly, if I walked into class and saw that on the board, I’d start to cry too.